Scottie Scheffler (-19) has not yet won the RBC Heritage, a tournament first suspended for over two hours due to an untimely and exuberant storm, and later definitively due to lack of light, but he has very well paved the way for victory, which would be the fourth in his last five appearances. However, we will have to wait until Monday to confirm this overwhelming streak.
At the time of the definitive suspension, the star match, in which the Texan was marching, was on the 15th hole green, and Scottie’s lead is currently five strokes over his immediate pursuers, who are four: Wyndham Clark, with the round already finished, Patrick Cantlay and J. T. Poston, with the 17th hole already played, and Sahith Theegala, who will start tomorrow morning (approximately from 2 p.m., Spanish peninsular time) hitting his second shot on the 16th.
The margin of action and manoeuvre for all of them is rather scarce, truth be told, but it also seems evident that they are all in the hands of a powerful leader who so far has shown no signs of weakness. He has already chained this week a whopping 66 holes without making a blot on the card. In fact, he has only made one, that double bogey on the 3rd hole of the first round…
He could have dropped another bogey precisely on the last hole he was playing before the suspension due to lack of light, because Scheffler was going into the water with the second shot on the 15th, the last par 5 of the Harbour Town Golf Links (Hilton Head, South Carolina) and needed to make approach and putt from 115 meters to save par. Naturally, he did. Putt in from about three meters and a notable fist pump from the world’s Number One…
A fist pump? Yes: effusive and forceful. Could it be that Scottie saw the victory in jeopardy and reacted in this way, relieved? It has more to do with this other thing he repeats so much: he simply hates making mistakes, hates making bogeys.
Let’s leave the analysis and recapitulation at this point for now. Let’s let his victory indeed become a reality and, if that’s the case, let’s revel again tomorrow in his numbers and his resplendent trajectory. And in how and how much he makes himself felt on the field: today he signed the eagle on hole 2 and immediately it seemed that the rest of the candidates lost their place on the field, with the stumbles of one and another happening here and there. Or maybe it was just a coincidence…
